They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War

by DeAnne Blanton, Lauren M. Cook, Lauren Cook Wike

Book Overview

Popular images of women during the American Civil War include self-sacrificing nurses, romantic spies, and brave ladies maintaining hearth and home in the absence of their men. However, as DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook show in their remarkable new study, that conventional picture does not tell the entire story. Hundreds of women assumed male aliases, disguised themselves in men's uniforms, and charged into battle as Union and Confederate soldiers--facing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807128066
• ISBN13: 9780807128060
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

very good condition

Bought this book for my daughter's school reading and it is in very good condition to be a used copy. A value indeed. I plan on donating this book to our local library for future reader use. It has some hilarious reading in there. Since it is required reading for a class I didn't think it would be that good. I was wrong. Learned a lot about women of our country back in the day.

Book: The Fought Like Demons

The book was exactly as described and shipment was immediate. This buying experience could not have been better.

Essential for reenactors portraying a woman in the ranks

Blanton gives us documented evidence of the many women who fought on both sides of the War Between the States, their motivations and how they hid their gender. Any reenactor who wants to portray a woman soldier should read this book, and it's also interesting for students of the war and those who insist women "can't hack it in combat."

Women warriors

I like this book. As a Social Studies teacher I am always looking for new information/interpretations of history to share with my students. To date, the subject of women as soldiers in the Civil War has been skimmed but no in depth information existed that I could find. This book is readable, informative and gives interesting information about how and why women fought and how they managed to avoid discovery. They Fought Like Demons provides that depth I've been looking for by providing the names and stories of many women within the context of the experiences of all soldiers in the Civil War.

Female Soldiers

I have read They Fought Like Demons . . . and loved every word of the test. I,too, have spent 2 1/2 years conducting research on female soliders of the Civil War. Blanton's and Cook's book has provided much needed informtion for my research. Whereas, They Fought Like Demons, is written for adults, I am focusing on 5 key women in the Civil War in writing a book for children. I am a university professor who teaches elementary and middle school social studies methods and have found it truly amazing that children as well as adults have no idea that women disguised themselves as men to fight in the Civil War. I am also a storyteller and share many stories about these various women in schools, roundtables,churches, and other organizations.The point of Blanton's and Cook's book is to provide and enlighten the reader with information on women who disguised themselves as soldiers to fight in the Civil War. It is NOT intended to provide an INDEPTH review of women in the war. NO book can provide that information unless it is fiction. The authors have not attempted, but have done a great job of undetaking a monumental task of documenting as many women as possible who did fight in the war. Many of these women were unknown and it is virtually impossible to find out who they were or where they were from.I highley commend these ladies for their wonderful product and want to thank them for providing me with information that would have taken me another five or six years to complete.Dr. Judy C. PierceProfessorWestern Kentucky University